Used car salesman Howard Shirley is watching England's most popular high-stakes TV quiz show with his wife, Janet, in their modest provincial house when it strikes him that his freakish "photographic brain" might make them an easy fortune. It also leads to first-class travel, luxury hotels, mink coats, some misguided philanthropy, and ultimately, outrageously, and comically, not entirely accidental death. Talkatively and divertingly narrated from Janet's worldly perspective, the tragi-comedy of Howard, his one-of-a-kind mind, and the modern world's trivia and trivialities makes for vintage Burgess -- at once hilarious and provocative.
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Hardback Editions
August 1996 : Hardback
| Title: One Hand Clapping Author(s): Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-09-959101-4 / 978-0-09-959101-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
February 1972 : Hardback
| Title: One Hand Clapping Author(s): Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-394-47280-2 / 978-0-394-47280-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Inc (T) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
July 1999 : Paperback
| Title: One Hand Clapping: A Novel Author(s): Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-7867-0631-7 / 978-0-7867-0631-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Da Capo Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1996 : Paperback
| Title: One Hand Clapping Author(s): Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-09-959081-6 / 978-0-09-959081-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1973 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: One Hand Clapping Author(s): Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-345-03151-2 / 978-0-345-03151-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
Other Editions
December 1964 : Unknown
| Title: One Hand Clapping Author(s): Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-432-08100-3 / 978-0-432-08100-6 (UK edition) Publisher: P Davies Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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